Unit 4 Vocabulary 2015
Name:______- Date:______
Match the term on the left with its definition on the right:
__ / 15th Amendment / A. / This is the law that President Andrew Johnson violated that caused him to be impeached in 1868.__ / 1877 / B. / This term refers to the process of taking away the right to vote from people who would normally enjoy that right.
__ / Andrew Johnson / C. / This was a significant battle during the Civil War in Mississippi where Union General Grant got Confederate forces to surrender. This led to Union control of the Mississippi River.
__ / Antebellum / D. / This was an order issued during the Civil War by President Lincoln ending slavery in the Confederate states.
__ / Battle Of Antietam / E. / This court order (writ ) requires a person to be brought before a judge.
__ / Battle Of Atlanta / F. / This was a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism, fell from prominence after Reconstruction, but was reborn in the 1920s and remained powerful through the 1960s.
__ / Battle Of Gettysburg / G. / This is the belief that the ultimate power of the government rests on the will of the people themselves.
__ / Battle Of Vicksburg / H. / This is the political loyalty to one's own region of the country over the entire country. This was a major factor leading up to the Civil War.
__ / Black Codes / I. / This was 1846 legislation added on to the negotiations of the Mexican-American War to prevent slavery in any Mexican Territory. It did not pass but did help lead to the Civil War.
__ / Bleeding Kansas / J. / He attempted to lead a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831, and though it was unsuccessful (he was executed for his violence), his actions represented a change in tone in the abolition movement.
__ / Civil Rights Act Of 1866 / K. / This piece of Reconstruction-era legislation was passed by Congress- over the veto of Andrew Johnson- in order to protect the rights of newly freed former slaves, guaranteeing such things as citizenship and equal legal rights as white citizens.
__ / Civil War / L. / This was a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1863) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
__ / Compromise Of 1850 / M. / Special laws passed by southern state governments immediately after the Civil War. They were designed to control former slaves, and to subvert the intent of the Thirteenth Amendment.
__ / Disfranchisement / N. / This politician from Mississippi was once Secretary of War for President Franklin Pierce, thought he is more known for being the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
__ / Dred Scott Decision / O. / In 1854 Stephen A. Douglas introduced this to the Senate, to allow states to enter the Union with or without slavery.
__ / Emancipation Proclamation / P. / This was a congressional agreement of 1820 which included the admission of one free and one slave state to maintain the balance of free and slave states in the Union.
__ / Fourteenth Amendment / Q. / He was a South Carolina politician and Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. He was a spokesperson for slavery, nullification and states' rights.
__ / Ft. Sumter / R. / This Union General made a name for himself at the siege at Vicksburg, though he later defeated Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to end the Civil War.
__ / Fugitive Slave Act / S. / This was the war between the North and South in the United States (1861-1865), also known as the War Between the States.
__ / Gettysburg Address / T. / This was the Act that mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture.
__ / Habeas Corpus / U. / This is the year in which the Reconstruction Era came to an official end in the Southern United States.
__ / Harper's Ferry / V. / A graduate of West Point and commanding General of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
__ / Jefferson Davis / W. / On October 16, 1859, 22 armed men took 60 prominent locals of Harper's Ferry hostage and seized the town's United States arsenal and its rifle works to spark a rebellion of freed slaves and to lead an army of emancipation.
__ / John Brown's Raid / X. / This Virginia town was the site of an attempted slave revolt led by John Brown.
__ / John C. Calhoun / Y. / This was the first phase of returning the Southern states to the Union (1863-1866) and was led by Lincoln and Johnson. Its goal was to reunite quickly and moderately.
__ / Kansas Nebraska Act / Z. / Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing and prohibiting slavery. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
__ / Ku Klux Klan / 1. / This was an important battle fought on July 22, 1864 in Georgia during the Civil War. It was a Union victory led by General Sherman and was subsequently burned to the ground and then he led his March to the Sea.
__ / Literacy Test / 2. / This was an important Civil War battle fought on September 17, 1862, in Maryland, significant for being both a strategic victory for the Union and for being the first major battle that took place on Northern soil.
__ / Missouri Compromise / 3. / Amendment to the United States Constitution stating: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
__ / Morehouse College / 4. / This was a military campaign embarked upon by the United States Army in late 1864 which destroyed property along a wide path south from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean in order to punish the Confederates for starting the war.
__ / Nat Turner / 5. / This was a 1857 Supreme Court decision that a slave, because he was not a citizen, could not sue for his freedom.
__ / Nullification / 6. / This is the fort located in the port of Charleston (South Carolina) that where the first shots of the United States Civil War were fired.
__ / Popular Sovereignty / 7. / Period used to describe Pre-Civil War in the United States.
__ / Reconstruction / 8. / This was the principle that a state government can declare a law of the national government invalid within the borders of the state.
__ / Robert E. Lee / 9. / This is one of the post-Civil War amendments to the US Constitution that includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
__ / Sectionalism / 10. / This politician from Tennessee became President following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, later becoming the first President to be impeached (he was found not guilty).
__ / Sherman's March To The Sea / 11. / Term coined by the New York Tribune to describe the violence between pro and anti slavery factions between 1854 and 1858. The violence was an attempt to influence whether Kansas would become a free or slave state.
__ / Tenure Of Office Act / 12. / This was administered to poor blacks in order to attempt to keep them from voting in many parts of the American south for close to 100 years following the Civil War.
__ / Thirteenth Amendment / 13. / This was an agreement that California would be admitted to the Union, the slave trade in the District of Columbia would be restricted, and the Fugitive Slave Law would be enforced.
__ / Ulysses S. Grant / 14. / This is a private male, African-American liberal arts college in Atlanta founded in 1867 for the education of former slaves in ministry and education.
__ / Wilmot Proviso / 15. / This was one of the bloodiest battles during the American Civil War. Set in Pennsylvania, it is also credited as a major turning point for the Union in the war against the Confederacy.